What is meant by the "partition" of India in 1947?

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Coffee On Mars · Answer 1 · 2017-04-20T09:56:12+0000

The partition of India was the process of dividing India into two parts: today's India and today's Pakistan and Bangladesh (Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan for a time).

This happened because the Indian Muslims wanted to have their own country where they would not be a minority

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